Rate My Professor Wei Hong

Hong's research specializations encompass Chinese Linguistics, Pragmatics, Second Language Acquisition, and Business Chinese. Her scholarly work includes studies on requests in German, English, and Chinese; intercultural pragmatics of apology and refusal; teaching Chinese as a second language; distance Chinese; and business Chinese. Key publications feature the books Practical Business Chinese (1997 and 2007 editions), 'Refusals in Chinese: How Do L1 and L2 Differ?' (2011), 'Cross-Cultural Training in Business Chinese' (2010), and contributions to 'Online Business Chinese Speaking Instruction' (2012) and 'Transforming Chinese Language Learning through Community Engagement: A Mixed-Methods Study of Service-Learning' (2024). In 2010, she was elected to the Board of Advisors of the Chinese Language Teachers Association in the US and has since served as a faculty reviewer for Chinese language programs for the American Council on Education. Hong regularly reviews manuscripts for major publishers, including Prentice Hall Publications, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, Yale University Press, and Georgetown University Press. She is a frequent invited speaker to business communities, MBA classes, K-12 educators, and academic conferences, delivering talks on Chinese business culture and etiquette, research in Chinese language pedagogy, and cross-cultural communication. Hong teaches Chinese Language Courses from Level I to IV and Distance Chinese Levels I to II.